The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the availability of the level 3, monthly Aquarius Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) V1.0 dataset produced by NASA/GSFC. The product provides insight into the global distribution of RFI at L-band and serves as a useful adjunct to the Aquarius V5.0 end-of-mission...

The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) Version 2.0 Science Data Record, which includes datasets from processing levels 1, 2, and 3. CYGNSS is a NASA Earth System Science Pathfinder Mission that will collect the first frequent...

The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the availability of the version 5.0 Aquarius/SAC-D data. This is the official NASA/Aquarius Project end-of-mission dataset spanning the complete 3-year, 9-month period of Aquarius science data availability, from August 25, 2011 through June 7, 2015. Likely future...

Please be informed that GHRSST GOES13 L3C v1.0 SST data will end on Dec. 13th 2017. An official message from OSISAF informs the PO.DAAC that OSISAF will not be able to receive the GOES-13 data and distribute the GOES13 L3C SST product from Dec. 14, 2017 onwards. Future GHRSST data from GOES-16 (...

We are pleased to announce an update to the PO.DAAC State of the Ocean (SOTO) visualization tool: Version 4.2.1 is now available online at https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/soto/.
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SWOT will provide high spatial resolution sea surface heights and water height measurements of large rivers and lakes. This survey is designed to help quantify user requirements on the SWOT data distribution and archive system hosted by JPL through PO.DAAC in support of science and applications...

The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the release of the version 2.41 VIIRS-NPP Level-2P/3U Sea Surface Temperature (SST) datasets produced by the NOAA Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO). This release is an upgrade from the current version 2.40, which ended on Sept. 15th, 2017. The...

Please be informed that the Remote Sensing Systems (REMSS) AMSR2 L2P SST dataset has been upgraded from version 7.2 to v8.0a. The current version 7.2 ended its production on the September 25th 2017, and the new version 8a started at the same time. Although it may take a month for PO.DAAC to...

The JPL GRACE Mascon Ocean, Ice and Hydrology Equivalent Water Height (hereafter, Mascon) Version 2 datasets have been recently updated with four additional months to its data time series, which brings the time series up to June, 2017. Users are cautioned that after August 2016, the accelerometer...

Please be informed that the NOAA VIIRS GHRSST datasets (L2P and L3U) have been updated from version 2.40 to 2.41 starting on Sept. 15th, 2017. The PO.DAAC has ingested the new data streams, but the formal release process may take at least a month to accomplish.
We apologize for the inconvenience...

Please be informed that the PO.DAAC has updated the Ocean Biology Processing Group (OBPG) produced MODIS L3 SST datasets from version 2014.0 to 2014.0.1. To keep minimum affects from this upgrade, the PO.DAAC dataset base-paths retain the v2014.0 in its version naming branch. The MODIS Aqua and...

Please be informed that GHRSST L4 MUR SST dataset will experience an interruption due to a processing hardware/network upgrade. The production of the dataset is being relocated to a new faster subnet, but this may take a few weeks to complete. We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause to...

The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the release of the SEVIRI-IO Level-3C version 1.0 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) dataset in collaboration with the Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility (OSI SAF), EUMESAT. This dataset is in the netCDF format and compliance with the Group for High...

The PO.DAAC 101 Video on PODAAC Web Portal Navigation has been released. This video tutorial demonstrates how to navigate the basic framework of PO.DAAC webpages to find PO.DAAC data and other resources. The user community can view the video through the following PO.DAAC social media sites:
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The first PO.DAAC 101 Video on How to Use OPeNDAP to Access Data is now released. OPeNDAP enables remote datasets to be accessed through familiar data analysis and visualization packages, just as if they resided locally on the user's machine. OPeNDAP handles transport, translation and subsetting of...